Break out of the courtyard

It was not until Zhang Heping got on the roadside minibus and left that Wei Chunqiao spoke again, "Ah Hu, did I show off just now? I just said that those two Japanese people might not go to Japan. How did that count as showing off myself?"

Tang Hu looked at the road with many more cars, as if he was thinking or in a daze.

It was not until Wei Chunqiao asked again that Tang Hu withdrew his gaze and looked at Wei Chunqiao.

"Old Wei, think about how you would have responded if you encountered the situation just now a year ago?" Tang Hu did not give a direct answer. He patted the other party's shoulder and walked towards the studio.

This kind of thing needs to be figured out by himself. If someone else tells him something, he might blame others for educating him.

In particular, Wei Chunqiao's nominal position is higher than Tang Hu's!

"How would I answer a year ago?" Wei Chunqiao frowned and fell into deep thought.

A year ago, Wei Chunqiao would only obey Zhang Heping and do whatever Zhang Heping said. He would never question Zhang Heping's decision like he did just now.

I don’t know when it started, but maybe it was the family reunion dinner at the main table on New Year’s Eve this year that made Wei Chunqiao change his mind.

...

On the morning of July 7, the topic was quantum computers. Since there were no physical objects and many of the computer experts attending the conference were hearing about this concept for the first time, they were not very interested.

In the afternoon, when Zhang Heping began to talk about the concept of optical computers, the audience below became noisy.

If quantum computers can be developed in the next few decades, then optical computers based on the biological brain will not be something they can see in their lifetime.

"It seems that no one is interested in optical computers, so I won't waste any more words." Zhang Heping finished speaking one-third of his speech, but when he saw that the audience was too noisy, he simply stopped talking about the idea of ​​optical computers.

"Mr. Zhang, could you tell us more about the security guard's defense mechanism?" A blond man asked in the audience, but it was too noisy around and Zhang Heping on the stage didn't seem to hear it.

Seeing Zhang Heping getting up to leave, the host Tang Wei also came on stage, and the magnesium people became anxious.

"Mr. Zhang!" A middle-aged Chinese man shouted and stood up to chase Zhang Heping, but the security guard standing in the aisle stopped him.

Zhang Heping glanced at the commotion in the audience and waved to a security guard who was looking over, signaling the blond-haired, white-skinned Chinese man to come over.

After a while, the Chinese man came to the stage and said to Zhang Heping on the stage: "Can you please tell me more about the defense mechanism of the security guard and the system programming logic."

Zhang Heping picked up the microphone and said to the audience: "I said it yesterday, this meeting is not to teach you."

"Also, I will collect another batch of questions this afternoon. At the meeting tomorrow morning, I will select some of them and answer them all at once."

"Tomorrow afternoon, we will randomly select 5 participants from the audience to come on stage for discussion. I will not repeat the introduction of the security guard defense mechanism and programming logic that this gentleman just asked about. Please go and read the speech script at the forum!"

After he finished speaking, Zhang Heping put the microphone on the podium, turned around and left, leaving the stage to his verbal apprentice Tang Wei.

"Is something wrong?"

As soon as Zhang Heping entered the studio, he saw his second sister Zhang Pandi waiting outside, chatting with Chen Shuting about interesting things in the past.

Zhang Pandi glanced at the bodyguard next to her and did not answer in a hurry.

"Those foreigners are very noisy. Ignore them this afternoon." Zhang Heping explained to his concubine Chen Shuting, then led them out.

When they arrived outside the exhibition hall, Zhang Heping saw two Hongqi cars parked at the door. He couldn't help but frown and stopped to look at his second sister Zhang Pandi. His eyes seemed to say, you can't get in the car unless you explain clearly.

Zhang Pandi moved closer and said helplessly in a low voice: "Some technical experts from the capital have come and want to discuss something with you."

When Zhang Heping heard about the term "technical expert", his first reaction was that they were here to ask him for money to start the project, so his brows did not relax. "Who asked you to come? Are you from Huadu? Or the capital?"

Zhang Pandi thought for a moment and said, "It should be someone from Huadu who recommended me to those technical experts to invite you over!"

"Tell the two drivers to go back and pick people up to meet me at Baiyun Hotel. Tell them that I'm very busy these days and don't have time to go out. Then, you and I will go to Baiyun Hotel first." After Zhang Heping finished speaking, he took Chen Shuting and several bodyguards to the minibus on the side of the road.

After Zhang Pandi passed the message to the driver, she jogged to catch up with Zhang Heping.

There was no conversation along the way until Zhang Heping returned to the suite on the 27th floor of Baiyun Hotel without the bodyguards following him. Then Zhang Pandi said:

"I heard that 62 computer experts came at noon and wanted to enter the Canton Fair complex for a meeting, but were rejected by your company. I'm looking for you to come over, probably to ask you to make some concessions and let them in."

"Yeah!" Zhang Heping responded without comment.

The purpose of the four test questions he had set was, firstly, to highlight that only those with real talent and knowledge could enter this conference; and secondly, to block some irrelevant people.

As for the number of computer experts sent from the capital, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, when the exchange session comes tomorrow, since I can explain it to foreigners, why can’t I explain it to domestic computer scholars?

About half an hour later, a young man from the Huadu Secretary's Office came over with three senior experts, one man and two women.

"Mr. Zhang, this is it!" The young man said seriously, "The research institute where some of our computer experts are located is quite far away..."

Zhang Heping didn't listen to the young secretary's excuse, but looked at one of the old ladies and smiled, "We have met before."

Facing the old lady's puzzled look, Zhang Heping smiled and reminded her, "That time in Guangcheng."

When she heard the word Guangcheng, the old lady, whose name was unknown, immediately became alert and looked at the people around her, as if she wanted to remember everyone so as to find them in case the secret was leaked.

"This afternoon, I talked about optical computers to a bunch of foreigners, but they thought I was talking about props from science fiction movies and none of them took it seriously."

Zhang Heping turned his gaze to the old man and old woman next to him. Neither of them reacted to the word "Guangcheng". It was probably because their skills were not up to par, or they failed the review or something.

"My young comrade, we came here this time only because our superiors suggested that we come to listen. We will definitely not spread the content of your meeting." The old lady who met Zhang Heping once still couldn't remember when she had met Zhang Heping.

Hearing the four-character code "will not spread randomly", Zhang Heping smiled and said to the young male secretary:

"Did you bring the list with you? If not, send it to the Canton Fair complex later and I'll call them and ask them to add it to the list of participants."

"Well..." The male secretary hesitated and said, "Mr. Zhang, among this group of experts, the identities of some people need to be kept confidential."

"We asked you to sign up, not to check your household registration." Zhang Heping shook his head secretly, sighing that this man was inflexible. "There are no ID cards in China, and there are no photos on the household registration books. It's not up to your leader to decide who the people are, and then security will let them in."

After talking about admission, Zhang Heping looked at the old man and the old woman again, "We will answer questions in the morning and have a simple exchange in the afternoon."

"The speeches for yesterday and today have been uploaded to the World Internet Forum. You can find a way to check them. If you have any questions, please write them down on a piece of paper. Tomorrow afternoon, one of you will be randomly given the opportunity to come on stage and share your thoughts."

Zhang Heping's words were like sending people away. The young male secretary who was a little slow just now stood up and said, "Mr. Zhang, we will go back and prepare the list. We won't bother you anymore."

The old man and the two old ladies didn't expect this to be so easy. When they went to the Canton Fair complex at noon, the security personnel there did not allow any room for negotiation.

But they don't think about the fact that the people below them will only follow the instructions from above and will not risk losing their jobs by letting them in.

Unlike Zhang Heping, the rule maker, letting someone into the venue is just a matter of his casual words.

When they were about to leave, the old lady who was recognized by Zhang Heping walked behind him hesitantly. Finally, she couldn't help but turn back and asked, "Are you sure that the quantum computer you talked about this morning can be realized?"

"Let's wait and see!" Zhang Heping replied with a smile, without asking the other party's name from beginning to end.

Ever since leaving the Sanxingdui underground secret base in Guangcheng last time, Zhang Heping has been secretly inquiring whether there are similar secret bases abroad.

At present, Zhang Heping has only locked on one suspicious place, Area 51 in Magnesium.

...

Hilton Hotel room in Central, Hong Kong Island.

"Most of the Umbrella Company's bodyguards have been sent to Huadu. The chances of them sneaking into Renheyi Community tonight are very high!"

"That person published the speech for the exchange meeting and also wants to build a school to teach computer technology. Do we really need to steal his computer host?"

"We want not only computer technology, but also his other technologies! For example, nuclear power plant technology!"

"But Renheyi Community is the headquarters of the Umbrella Company. Even if most of the bodyguards have gone to Huadu, the security guards and security guards who are off work and at home, as well as the five security teams on regular duty..."

"There are no excuses. This has to be done! After you infiltrate, if you encounter the three people who were captured before, save them if you can. If you can't save them, focus on the mission first and find a way to save them later."

The last sentence of the short man with a mustache was obviously meant to fool the two veterans in front of him, hoping to relieve their worries by creating the illusion of subsequent rescue.

By the way, these two skinny, short veterans were the two Japanese people who ran back to Hong Kong Island this morning.

They were wandering around Huadu Hotel last night. When they returned to the hotel, they happened to see Tang Hu leading more than 20 security guards talking to the armed police outside the Huadu Hotel.

Seeing this, the two guilty Japanese veterans thought that the ceramic lipstick gun they had hidden under the chairs in the meeting hall during the day had been discovered, so they dared not stay in Huadu any longer!

So, the two Japanese people found Mitsubishi's contact point in Huadu, went to Shenzhen overnight, and ran back to Hong Kong Island early the next morning.

To outsiders, their behavior seemed cowardly; but to themselves, they thought it was cautious!

At this moment, the caution of the two Japanese veterans came in handy again, and they refused to respond to the short man with a mustache.

It's not that easy to ask them to steal computer hosts in the heavily guarded Renheyi Community without any evidence.

...

On July 7, at 27 o'clock in the evening, it was time for the security changeover in Renheyi Community.

"Everyone, cheer up! The boss said that in the eyes of outsiders, the security of our community has been the weakest in the past few days. If the enemy wants to sneak in, they will most likely seize this opportunity."

"I'm here to remind you all again, if you let the enemy sneak in and steal things from the boss's house, you and I will lose our year-end bonuses this year!"

"Coach Gu, don't worry! For the sake of our year-end bonus, we will definitely not fall asleep tonight."

"Uncle Gu, there's something going on in the forest! Two people came from the south slope. They didn't take the road, but came directly through the forest."

"Only two?"

...

"Ichifu, I think something is wrong!" The retired soldier from Japan Island, wearing a black nightgown and looking like a ninja, said to his companion:

"Although the 5000 million yuan was transferred to our Mitsubishi Bank account, the bank is owned by them. What if they withdraw the money from our account later?"

The retired soldier from Japan Island, who was called Kazuo, asked doubtfully, "Okawa, let's not talk about whether we can withdraw the money from the bank in the future. Not only did we accept their money in name, but we also came to the wall of Renheyi Community. Do you want me to give up now? Go back and beg for their forgiveness?"

"No! If we take the money but don't do the job, those lackeys of the consortium will not let us go. What I mean is, we can't all sneak in according to their plan. We have to leave someone outside to support us."

"Who stays outside? Who goes in?"

...

"What are these two dwarfs doing?"

"It seems like they are playing rock-paper-scissors? Look, the one who played scissors loses and has to get ready to climb over the wall."

"Judging from their figures, these two thieves are either middle school students or Japanese. Instructor Gu, we..."

"Oh no! There are three fires!"

...

"Okawa, there's a flame in the community, I think it's on fire!" Kazuo, a retired soldier from Japan, excitedly said to his companion whose shoulder he was stepping on, "We can sneak into the villa in the middle while they are putting out the fire!"

"You go!" Okawa, a retired soldier from Japan, said in a deep voice, "It's just a computer host. There's no need for both of us to go together. This can also reduce the risk of exposure."

"No! I have to take off these clothes!" After climbing up the high wall, Kazuo, a retired Japanese soldier, took off his clothes and left only his underwear.

Okawa, a retired soldier from Japan, looked at his companion on the wall and asked in confusion, "What are you doing?"

"There was a fire inside, and I was just pretending to be someone fleeing."

"You don't have to strip down to your underwear!"

...

Huadu, 27th floor, Baiyun Hotel.

Boom boom boom!

Tang Hu knocked on the door of the suite where Zhang Heping's family lived. Seeing Zhang Heping opening the door wrapped in only a bath towel, Tang Hu no longer cared about disturbing him.

Tang Hu said anxiously, "Son-in-law, the computer hard drive in your study has been stolen!"

"Okay! Got it!" Zhang Heping responded calmly, then closed the door, making it impossible for Tang Hu outside to be dealt with!

Not only Wei Chunqiao and Tang Hu knew that there was corruption within the Umbrella Company, but Zhang Heping, the big boss behind the scenes, also knew it.

The original decision to live in the same community with these veterans, and later to connect the Umbrella Community down the slope, was not only for the convenience of protection, but also had a very important purpose!

That is to make it convenient for the people below to report to the big boss Zhang Heping!

People in high positions and powerful positions have a common problem: information cocoon!

When Zhang Heping reached such a high position, it was not that someone deliberately did not give him information, but that few people could talk to him; people around him would subconsciously fear his money and power, and would only greet him respectfully when they met him, gradually creating an invisible information wall for him!

Therefore, on New Year's Day in recent years, the Zhang family would open their doors to let their subordinates come to pay New Year's greetings, distribute a large number of red envelopes, and allow their own children to accept red envelopes from their subordinates, in order to bring the two sides closer together.

In addition, Zhang Heping had once said that anyone who was dissatisfied with the current management could go to him to report the problem.

As a result, he received several letters of complaint.

One of the letters was a report that a manager was collaborating with the Japanese islanders, so Zhang Heping had to send his wife and children to the capital first...